Status Report 5

Team: Alex Goldyuk, Amine Hocine, Alexander Lewoczko, Lexi Reicks, Ryan Toepfer, Armando Vila

Report Date: 4/02/2020

Project: Indicoop/Wireless Backyard Chicken Coop

Project Status: In-Progress

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Status:
We had a lot of meeting and planning discussing how to continue with all our work since the covid stuff has happened. Our course of action has been set after meeting and talking with our advisor over Zoom and a couple of team only discussions. The physical side of our project was pushed ahead right before we went into spring break since we saw the writing on the wall begin. Luckily or I guess thanks to the planning and pushing ahead we now have our physical portion of the project at a level that we can accept. However we can not improve it beyond this level easily and are adjusting our work around that now. Real life happens and our team is proud that we can adjust for it.

Past Week accomplishments
Working Web Skeleton
First meeting of the Semester
Prototype results were distributed
Fixing Battery Life Issues
Sensors Working
Push Notifications
Live Testing

• Web Portal -Lexi
• • The front-end is functional and we are working to display live data we’re set to be ready within the next week with displaying graphics of all of our data. Our sensor readings are coming in.
• Text Notifications -Armando
• • Our notifications are now linked to the backend and can send out notifications to the users in case of important notifications.
• Testing - Ryan, Alex G, Alexander L.
• • For spring break we prepared an extended testing period for the device. We get a week of battery life now out in the coop with both sensors reading out data to the server. The weight scale has a slight pattern in the weight reading distribution that we can’t exactly find whats causing it however it’s within the average weight reading.
• Reports/Admin- Amine, Alex
• • We’ve started work on our peer eval report as well as poster and all our other admin work for this project. As well as recorded and sent out our peer slideshow.

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Plans for the next weeks:

• Front-end - Lexi, Ryan
• • Finish up all missing features in the front-end
• Join Admin Team- Armando Vila
• • Start helping on sections of admin work
• Admin Work - Alex G, Amine
• • Facilitate the extended testing and lead the work on all our documentation.
• Adjust for results from trials - Alexander, Ryan
• • See what we can improve from what we found in our extended testing.

Pending Issues:

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Hours:

Name	Contributions	Bi-Weekly Hours	Cumulative
Armando Vila	Sending push notifications/ Admin Work	18	131
Alex Goldyuk	Helped start testing/Admin Work	19	157
Alexander Lewoczko	Helped Testing	16	124
Amine Hocine	Created peer eval presentation/Started other documentation	19	147
Lexi Reicks	Web Portal is currently fully functional	19	155
Ryan Toepfer	Lead Testing/Analyzed Results/Admin Work	20	157

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